RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Hector Berlioz724 - Hector Berlioz
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ALS in French, signed at the top, “H. Berlioz,” one page, 4 x 5.25, no date. Letter to his friend, the Hungarian pianist Stephen Heller, in part: (tra
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Hector Berlioz725 - Hector Berlioz
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ALS in French, signed “H. Berlioz,” one page, 5.5 x 4.5, no date but notated in pencil December 13, 1853. Untranslated letter to the violinist Joseph
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Maria Callas726 - Maria Callas
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Vintage matte-finish 4 x 5.75 promotional photo depicting Callas as the main character in the opera Anna Bolena, signed in blue ink, “Anna Bolena, Mar
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Enrico Caruso727 - Enrico Caruso
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Handsome vintage matte-finish 3.25 x 5.25 three-quarter length postcard photo of Caruso by Mertens photography, signed vertically in fountain pen. In
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Carl Czerny728 - Carl Czerny
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Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin (1791–1857) whose vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works. After meeting Bee
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Claude Debussy729 - Claude Debussy
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ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 5.5, no date but postmarked Paris, August 7, 1900. Letter to Blanche Marot, in full (translated)
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
 
 
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Wilhelm Furtwangler730 - Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Autograph musical manuscript in pencil, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 9.75 x 13.25, signed in the upper right, “Furtwangler,” and dated 1897. Fu
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Joseph Joachim731 - Joseph Joachim
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Hungarian violinist and composer (1831–1907) ranked second only to Paganini among 19th-century virtuosi. Boldly penned AMQS on an ornately embossed 5
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Yrjo Kilpinen732 - Yrjo Kilpinen
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Finnish composer (1892–1959) best known for his large body of work in the Lieder style. Superb autograph musical manuscript, three pages on two adjoin
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Franz Liszt733 - Franz Liszt
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DS in German, signed “F. Liszt,” one page, 9.5 x 9, 1840. A financial document from the Viennese music seller Tobias Haslinger in which Liszt boldly c
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
 
 
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